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Tuesday 31 March 2015

Details emerge of refugee meet

A banner hangs on the fence of a refugee camp in Anibare district, Nauru, earlier this month where a Cambodian delegation was to meet with refugees. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Refugees who met with Cambodian immigration officials last week on the Pacific island of Nauru were told they would be given permanent visas and travel documents but would have to pay for English-language education and would lose all but emergency financial support after a year, a refugee said.
Two men attended the meeting where Cambodia explained how the resettlement program signed between Australia and Cambodia in September 2014 would work, but according to a refugee in the meeting, attendees only went out of curiosity and were not interested in moving to the Kingdom.
“We are traded like slaves between two corrupted governments. One wealthy but obsessed by the boats, the other one hungry enough to commit any crime [for] money”, the refugee, who cannot be named for security reasons, said.

“These two [countries] have created a great torture machine to reach their nasty political, economic purposes and are blessed enough to have the support of the all international organisations like [the] UN.
“Many people have died. Many children [have been] sexually abused. Many women [have been] raped … and everybody [is] calling for investigations instead of any real, practical help. We don’t need your investigation. We don’t need your sympathy. We don’t beg any fake respect. We just don’t want to be slaves anymore.”


According to the agreement signed by the two countries on September 26, Australia would cover all the costs of resettlement and later said it would also give Cambodia an additional $35 million in aid to sweeten the deal.
General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, and Kerm Sarin, director of the ministry’s Refugee Department, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The International Organisation for Migration, which has agreed to help facilitate the “voluntary” transfer of refugees from Nauru as long as a number of conditions are met, was also present at last week’s meeting, according to IOM’s Asia Pacific spokesman Joe Lowry.
“We would have had no talks with anyone unless they had expressed an interest in relocating. That hasn’t happened, to the best of my knowledge,” he said.
A spokesperson for Australia’s minister of immigration could not be reached yesterday.
The refugee on Nauru said the community felt criminalised, as other groups who arrived by boat at the same time had been allowed to move to Australia.
“Being [a] refugee is not [a] crime.… We are [neither] criminals nor slaves. We are ordinary people who are fighting for their right to live.”

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ALICE CUDDY AND CHEANG SOKHA

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

Think about it, if those refugees do not want to resettle in Cambodia, would the Vietnamese want to become illegal immigrants in Cambodia? Heck no. Vietnam is a much better country.

A Vietnamese would prefer to live in Vietnam instead of coming over to Cambodia. My take, there are:

_ a few thousand adventurous petty business Vietnamese making some small joints in Cambodia for easy profits.

_ a few thousand Vietnamese experts who were ordered by the companies to work in Cambodia to kick start projects and to manage the Cambodians.

_ 100,000 Vietnamese who were born in Cambodian and had no home land in Vietnam.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

If I am the Vietnamese leader, I would do this to take over Cambodia.

1. Why should I bother to take Cambodian land, farms? I can have the Cambodians work for me on their own land as long as I own the lands through the land concession.

2. With more land in Cambodia, I can use up more land in Vietnam to build cities, factories, roads, resorts. Any things which grow and takes up a lot of lands, I plant them in Cambodia. In Vietnam, I only plant high value produces.

3. By maintaining the supply chain, and keep the Cambodians at labor intensive, low value produces, Cambodians will depend on me and cannot compete against me.

4. I do not need as much forest for the green lung in Vietnam. Right next door, there are plenty of Cambodian forest. I would just buy up land concession in Cambodia and don't develop it, let them grow as green forest for my home land in Vietnam.

To do all what I said above, I must have Vietnamese workers with high skills, Vietnamese students with superior scores and a lot of cash to pay off the Cambodian officials. The Cambodian folks will be kept under control by my Cambodian officials.

So, Khmer. Your problem is: You have low skills, terrible learning aptitude, and no cash. Now, fix your problem and shut up.

I am doing you folks a great favor. You should thank me. I do hold a special technique to tutor extremely low learning aptitude Khmer students. And I will not help you folks.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...


-Drgunzet-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppM8Hf8gbP8


feel any better?